KBC Outreach Focuses On Heart Health

Feb 26, 2025

The Kansas Beef Council (KBC) is advancing efforts to share the science behind beef’s role in a heart-healthy diet, reaching health professionals and consumers with evidence-based resources. Recognized as American Heart Month, February provides an ideal opportunity to amplify these initiatives.

The recently developed Science Update: Lean Beef and Cardiometabolic Health booklet summarizes key checkoff-funded research and is being shared with health professionals nationwide. It features notable studies such as the landmark Beef in an Optimal Lean Diet study that demonstrates including 4 oz. to 5 oz. of lean beef daily in a DASH-style diet improves cholesterol levels. Additionally, a randomized clinical trial found that a Mediterranean-style diet with up to 5.5 oz. of lean beef daily led to improvements in cardiovascular risk factors, such as lower LDL cholesterol levels. Another study further supported these findings, showing improved cholesterol and blood pressure with lean red meat in a Mediterranean diet.

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Video: What It Takes to Stop African Swine Fever - Dr. Jishu Shi

In this episode of The Swine it Podcast Show Canada, Dr. Jishu Shi, Professor of Vaccine Immunology at Kansas State University, discusses African swine fever prevention and vaccine development. He explains why ASF differs from classical swine fever and swine influenza, how the disease threatens trade and pork production, why immunization safety remains a critical hurdle, and what producers can do now to reduce the risk of introduction. Listen now on all major platforms!

"Before a safe and efficacious vaccine for ASF can be commercialized, what we really have is prevention."

Meet the guest: Dr. Jishu Shi is Professor of Vaccine Immunology and the Dr. Wayne & Hilda Appleton Endowed Professor at Kansas State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. He directs the Center on Biologics Development and Evaluation and the U.S.-China Center for Animal Health. A veterinarian and vaccine immunologist, Dr. Shi has focused on vaccines for pigs and has worked on African swine fever vaccine development, control, diagnostics, and international training since 2018. Learn more from Dr. Jishu Shi on The Swine it Podcast Show Canada, available on all major platforms.